According to Buddhist historical sources, King Ashoka organized the Third Buddhist Council under the chairmanship of Moggaliputta Tissa at Pataliputra (now Patna) in 247 B.C.

A replica of the ancient Ashokan Pillar has been erected on the premises of a Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka in recognition of ...

Marking a significant moment in the shared heritage between India and Sri Lanka, a replica of King Ashoka's Vaishali Pillar ...

Emperor Ashoka, after witnessing the horrors of the Kalinga War, embraced Buddhism and dedicated his rule to promoting peace, tolerance, and compassion through moral edicts. These inscriptions ...

In a study published this week in Current Science, archaeologist Monica Smith and geographer Thomas Gillespie identified 121 possible locations of what are known as Ashoka's "edicts.". First they ...

Twin Ashoka Pillars at Rampurva. Credit: Praanshu / Wikimedia Commons Thematically, the edicts of the rocks and minor pillars, the earliest ones, are fundamentally religious, with continuous ...

King Ashoka of ancient India was not only a ... he also wrote himself permanently into South Asian religious history by converting to Buddhism and ensuring that it spread beyond the ...

By Upali Rupasinghe. The recent administrative changes and political developments in the state of Jammu and Kashmir after the Indian government ended the State’s special status,Hindus and Buddhists ...

However, the key moment in Buddhist history was the conversion of the Indian Emperor Ashoka of the Mauryan Dynasty to Buddhism around 260 BCE. Ashoka’s conversion was the result of the remorse ...